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the public about prices at the pump amid the joint U.S.'s Rayleigh Air War over Iran.
“White House press secretary Caroline Levitt.”
Once the national security objectives of Operation Epic Fury are fully achieved, Americans will see oil and gas prices drop rapidly, potentially even lower than they were prior to the start of the operation. U.S. military says it has eliminated 16 Iranian mind-lain ships near the strait of
for mous through which 20 percent of the world's oil is shipped.
The military's announcement came after President Trump warned Iran against laying minds in the strait. The volatile oil market plunged on Tuesday after energy secretary Chris Wright made and then deleted a social media post on X as impairs Maria Aspen reports. Oil prices have been swinging wildly for days since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran.
The price of Brent Crude Oil, the global benchmark, searched well past $100 at the start of the week before retreating. The sell-off intensified after energy secretary Chris Wright posted on X that the U.S. Navy had escorted an oil tanker through the strait of Hormuz, quote, "to ensure oil remains flowing to global markets," but the post was deleted within minutes.
White House press secretary Caroline Levitt later said during a press conference that
“the U.S. Navy has not escorted a tanker or a vessel through the key waterway at this”
time. Maria Aspen and PR news. "Dousants of U.S. soldiers have been wounded in Iran's retaliatory strikes, and Pentagon now confirming at least 140 service members have been injured with eight severely wounded." A candidate endorsed by President Trump advancing to a special election runoff in the
race to replace former Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who abolished with member stationed W.A.B.E. in Atlanta, reports on the special election to fill that seat for the rest of the year. Greene resigned in January after a falling-out with Trump, Republican Clay Fuller, a former district attorney got the endorsement of Trump, who came to the district and rallied for
him last month. Fuller says the endorsement made a difference in helping him get the most votes among the Republicans on the ballot.
“Fuller advances to an April 7 runoff against Democrat Sean Harris, who lost a green”
in 2024 by a 64% to 36% margin. There will be a separate May primary and November general election to fill the Congressional seat after January 2027 that features many of the same candidates including Fuller and Harris. For NPR News, I'm Ronald Bally in Atlanta. "Hage or tornado damage being reported in Kanky County, Illinois, South of Chicago officials
say the tornado down trees and power lines and overwhelmed a 911 center with emergency calls. Tornado watches an effect from Texas to Michigan. This is NPR." The Food and Drug Administration has approved a generic drug to treat a rare genetic disorder,
but not for autism. The FDA said Tuesday that the drug helps children and adults who cannot get foot in a full late into the brain in September, President Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy promoted the drug as an autism treatment. The FDA sites a lack of data for that, and that the evidence supports use only in patients
with specific genetic mutations. Forecasters say this winter has been the warmest on record across many states in the Western U.S. in Pierslor and Summer reports on concerns about direct, about drought and wildfire risk.
16 states experienced their warmest or second warmest winter in 131 years of recordkeeping.
That's according to a new assessment by the National Oceanic and atmospheric administration. One third of the U.S. population experienced the warmest winter daytime highs on record. That trend was mostly across the Great Plains and Western U.S., high temperatures of lead to a low snow pack there, which could have impacts this summer. Mountain snow packs supplies water to millions of people, and dry conditions can set the
stage for more extreme wildfires. More in summer and PR news. The WMBA and its players union meeting is a deadline to reach a deal of approaches, the meeting at a hotel in New York City Tuesday evening comes on the day the league said it needed at least a handshake agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement, revenue
sharing as a key sticking point. Financial markets in Asia, largely holding steady and Wednesday trading, Japan's benchmark up to 0.3% South Korean shares of the fans more than 3% I'm Jalil Snyder in PR news.
